United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will attend the last day of talks between warring Yemeni parties in Sweden on Thursday, the world body said. Guterres will participate in UN-brokered negotiations between Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and forces loyal to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the rural village of Rimbo, north of Stockholm. He […]

Yemeni air defense units shot down a Saudi reconnaissance drone over the western port city of Hudaydah. Yemen’s Saba news agency, citing military sources, reported that the drone was shot down over the province’s Durihaimi district on Monday. In a separate development, Saudi warplanes targeted al-Shabab city in Hudaydah. The war on Yemen has so […]

Just back from Yemen, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator said “20 million Yemenis are hungry,” and another quarter of a million face catastrophic consequences from a lack of food. Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock told reporters on Monday at the world body’s headquarters in New York that there was a “dramatic deterioration” of the crisis in Yemen, […]

Another round of talks on the Saudi-led war on Yemen will likely take place in the coming months, sources said, as warring parties met for UN-sponsored talks in Sweden. The Sweden initiative marks the first meeting between the two sides since the 2016 breakdown of talks to end the Saudi war, which has claimed more […]

A senior American official said the US administration strongly opposes discontinuing its support to the Saudi-led coalition that has so far claimed the lives of thousands of civilians, including women and kids, in Yemen. “Obviously there are pressures in our system … to either withdraw from the conflict or discontinue our support of the coalition, […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the country has announced its “full support” for the United Nations’ efforts for ending the protracted war on Yemen. “The Stockholm consultations are of Yemeni-Yemeni nature and the Islamic Republic of Iran has emphasized the need for Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue without the interference of foreigners since the beginning of […]

The UN special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, commended the positive spirit the two parties are demonstrating at talks underway in Sweden in the pursuit of peace in Yemen. “The two parties are engaged in a serious and constructive way in discussing the details of confidence-building measures, the reduction of violence, and the framework for […]

The forces of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees, in a retaliatory attack against the Riyadh-led coalition, fired six domestically made missiles at the Saudi-backed militants in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan, local reports said. The Yemeni forces hit the positions of the Saudi military and its mercenaries with six Zelzal-1 (Quake-1) ballistic […]

The United Nations called for the immediate removal of Saudi Arabia’s blockade on Yemen as talks to end the ongoing war against the impoverished country begin in Sweden. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the Houthi Ansarullah movement and Yemen’s former Saudi-backed government to show flexibility and make room for progress. “I welcome the opening […]

Yemeni forces and fighters from popular committees targeted militants’ positions in Saudi Arabia’s border region of Asir in a counterattack, killing and injuring scores of them. The mercenaries suffered serious losses after attempting to sneak into Yemen’s soil from the direction of the Aleeb crossing, a military official told Saba news agency. The militants were backed by […]